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Notes: game on...on the radio...Angels and Rangers...pre game show...sit down with Scioscia...Ficus sycomorus...
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Ficus sycomorus is native to Africa south of the Sahel and north of the Tropic of Capricorn, also excluding the central-west rainforest areas. It also grows naturally in Lebanon, where Beirut's famous Gemmayzeh Street is derived from the tree's Arabic name, Gemmayz; in the southern Arabian Peninsula; in Cyprus; in very localised areas in Madagascar; and as a naturalised species in Israel, Palestine and Egypt. In its native habitat, the tree is usually found in rich soils along rivers and in mixed woodlands.
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According to botanists Daniel Zohary (b. 1926) and Maria Hopf (1914–2008),[citation needed] the ancient Egyptians cultivated this species "almost exclusively."[
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It was the ancient Egyptian Tree of Life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus_sycomorus
different tree than the Sycamore trees hereabout...
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Hudson, Travis, editor
1978 The Wind Sycamore: Some J.P. Harrington Notes on a Ventureño Chumash Shrine. The Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly 24(1):1‑15
A description of a Ventureño Chumash shrine at an ancient sycamore tree adopted by the Catholic padres as the location for a chapel. Harrington describes objects left at the shrine by the Chumash, including baskets of ants. Other "baskets containing offerings of seeds, nuts and so forth were placed both inside and outside the tree." The tree, known as the Wind Sycamore, evidently had a large hollow "near the ground at one end." Other objects including beads and food were also left there. It is interesting to note that a wooden image about two and one‑half feet long was hung in the hollow of the tree. According to Harrington's informants people who wished ill for an enemy would go to the tree and afflict their enemy by turning the various plugs which held the articulated form together, thus affecting the enemy's corresponding part. He also states that medicine men would cure people ills by means of the god of the Wind Sycamore. A photograph of the tree depicts the tree as anthropomorphic.
https://www2.palomar.edu/users/ddozier/personal_pages/publications/a_california_basketry_bibliography.htm
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game underway...Calhoun up...highlighted link has more on this Sycamore...lead off hit...Fletcher up...some of these ancient illustrations of Tree of Life have that shield shape I've gone on about...this post ninety first in a series...see previous...roundish on top...squared off bottom...well, that's what trees look like often!...and too, trees resemble the mandorla...several Egyptian goddesses have the Egyptian sycomore as an emblem...Fletcher grounded out...Ohtani up...3-2...strike 'm out throw 'm out...hmmph...Calhoun thrown out at second...to bottom of 1st...
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There were several deities that were associated with trees, a rare commodity in Egypt. Horus was associated with the acacia, while Osiris and Re were tied with the willow and the sycamore, respectively. Osiris was sheltered by a willow after he was killed, and for example, the The Book of the Dead describes two "sycamores of turquoise" growing at the point on the eastern horizon where the sun-god rises each morning. Re was also associated with the ished tree. Also, Wepwawet was paired with the Tamarisk, and the symbol of the god Heh was a palm branch, while not surprisingly, we have both Thoth and Seshat, the two deities associated with writing, inscribing the leaves of either the ished (or persea) tree with the Royal Titulary and the number of years in the pharaoh's reign.
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However, none of these male deities were associated with trees nearly as much as a number of female deities. The sycamore specifically was regarded as a manifestation of the goddesses Nut, Isis and Hathor, who was even given the title, "Lady of the Sycamore". In fact, this title has been interpreted to relate to a specific and particularly old tree that once stood to the south of the Temple of Ptah at Memphis during the Old Kingdom.
http://www.crystalinks.com/treegoddesses.html
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Rangers get a run...Rangers 1-0...Barria on mound for Angels...
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http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptrees.html
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Rangers make out...to top of 2nd....that link is to page about all the Egyptian trees...that might be Nut inside the Sycomore...a reach, but similar to figures inside the mandorla...Pujols up...and has the stele/shield shape...Simmons up...don't know what happened to Pujols...made out...Simmons with a hit...
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17th-century depiction of the tree of life in Palace of Shaki Khans, Azerbaijan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life
wiki's take on Tree of Life...I searched youtube for Tree of Life...
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Assyrian tree of life part 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUwQs6e8omY&t=557s
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Angels make out...to bottom of 2nd...was watching clip before game...return to it after post...'volute' a word I wanted to look up...the Sumerian winged emblem sometimes has a volute on top...an ambigram curly cue...that's kind of what is at the top location on the steles...I dunno...going wanting for names of the locations for where things are is what things are...'head' for the top is too simple!...anyway, for sometime more on the Tree of Life...have in mind the Mayan steles...they're not shield like...but do have a top down look...and the Mayan headdresses on the stele are really elaborate...looked about too for lintels and doorways...what's on them...Rangers made out...
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The sculpting of these monuments spread throughout the Maya area during the Classic Period (250–900 AD),[2] and these pairings of sculpted stelae and circular altars are considered a hallmark of Classic Maya civilization.
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Stelae were essentially stone banners raised to glorify the king and record his deeds,[11] although the earliest examples depict mythological scenes.[
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_stelae#Preclassic_origins
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I cant find any pattern to the Mayan stele...the standing figure ones always have the figures' hands held over their stomachs in a gesture...its the top of 3rd...Angels up...Calhoun...Young on first...Angels make out...to bottom of 3rd...
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These figures act out one of a standard set of rites of passage: they wear battle garb to emphasize their military prowess, ritually let blood in offering to the deities, "scatter" sacred substances with outstretched hands, or participate in ritual dance. Imagine trying to dance while balancing a headdress that is half your own height!
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-americas/early-cultures/maya/a/classic-maya-portrait-stelae
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and, that's about as far as I get with Maya stele...noting the hands gesture...many are ambigramatic...like that one...but a lot aren't...and some carved into a random shaped stone...to begin, stele were carved in wood...probably where the elaboration began...but those all gone...runners at the corners for the Rangers...double play...Rangers make out...to top of 4th...cast about for other Mesoamercian stele...zapotec steles brought this up...
Ancient Zapotec temple stone, Teotitlan del Valle Community Museum
http://oaxacaculture.com/category/oaxaca-rug-weaving-and-natural-dyes/
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that looks like the adobe carvings down in Peru noted yesterday...an aside...some of the stone carvings look like the ones in Peru too...a side by side for sometime...Angels have a runner...a hustle double for Ohtani!...runners second and third...Pujols up...drives one to first base and throw home goes wide...no review...everyone safe...oh...a double play on Simmons' ground out...but, Ohtani scores...Angels 2-1...fly out...to bottom of 4th...there's the famous enigmatic one the Mormons go on about...
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Izapa Stela 5
Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 138 Plate 52
This sacral tree connects heaven and earth. Its roots are in the ground panel and its branches reach into the sky panel. Nephi associates the tree with God 1 Nephi 11:25 who explicitly reigns in the heavens above and the earth beneath Mosiah 4:9.
http://bookofmormonresources.blogspot.com/2016/07/art-and-iconography-4.html
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hmmph...let another author do the side by side work!...early in the series I happened on this stele...oh...this pic goes with the canopy pics at end of yesterday's post...
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https://sites.google.com/site/mesopotamiavsmesoamerica/home/government
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long fly out against the wall...Cowert up...ground out to pitcher...two quick outs...Young up...
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http://www.ancientamerica.org/?page_id=360
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another author's take!...finding sacred geometry imports...thankful for the color illustration...rain wind arriving...Angels made out...to bottom of 5th...runner out trying to get a hustle double...Rangers made out...to top of 6th...hail coming down with the rain...a tornado in the works!...dunno...totally missed Allison Kraus concert at the fair...had ticket...thought it was the 19th...but was the 9th...sun came back out...short short delay...
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https://www.google.com/search?q=mesoamerican+stele&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCx8qy9_ncAhVm0YMKHb5SAqYQ_AUICigB&biw=1038&bih=385#imgdii=iEVModxxuXag4M:&imgrc=TOAMswOOgo_AUM:&spf=1534710781043
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that's a neat replica illustration of the Inca King...and maybe an explanation of the canopies...I don't know if the Egyptians had sedan chairs hand carried...seen those in movies...
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:QueenHetepheres_CarryingChair-FuneraryFurniture_MuseumOfFineArtsBoston.png
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found one...one out double for Fletcher...Ohtani up...intentional walk...boo...Pujols up...make them pay, Albert...a sedan chair screams decadence, opulence, that one should be so lucky to be carried about!...
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In pharaonic Egypt and many oriental realms such as India and China, the ruler and divinities (in the form of an idol like lord Krishna) were often transported in a litter in public, frequently in procession, as during state ceremonial or religious festivals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litter_(vehicle)#Antiquity
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis_Shrine
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the Egyptian shrines are thought to be the proto types for the Arc of the Covenant...Young snags a long fly...third out...to top of 7th...Arc had a canopy to go with it, but looks nothing like the Egyptian canopies...one quick out...Ward up...
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The canopy was cleverly designed so that it disassembled easily and without damage, thanks to the copper sheathing reinforcing the joins.
https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/canopy-of-queen-hetepheres-i-reproduction-148163
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Queen Hetepheres lived large!...site has her furniture...including portable bed canopy...Angels made out...to bottom of 7th...base hit...runners at corners only one out...Ramirez on mound for Angels...rain coming back...home run...Rangers 4-2...and tarp is coming out...gotta bad feeling...this one to be rained out...time to foray out for a snack!...
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